If Clare Balding wasn't already considered a national treasure, her ubiquity anchoring this year's London Paralympics has confirmed it.
This may be why her autobiography, the tellingly named My Animals and Other Family, has been number one best-seller for the past two weeks. For a woman whose entire life has been spent in horseracing, where competition means everything, one suspects these sorts of things matter to Balding.
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